Strano allows you to run any task via a clean and simple web interface.
Simply create a project from any of your Github or Git repositories, and Strano will use
repository as working directory to run any task you want (but we only use it for Capistrano).
Which means you don't have to set up Capistrano twice, and you can still run
capistrano tasks from the command line without fear of different configurations
being used, causing conflicted deploys.

All tasks are recorded, so you can look back and see a full history of who did
what and when.

Strano is in production use at KupiKupon and other Express42 clients, but is
still in active development. So I need your help to improve and ensure the code
is top quality. So I encourage any and all pull requests. Fork away!

Installation

Strano is simply a Rails app with a DB backend for processing background jobs.
Clone the repo from Github and run:

script/bootstrap

Then start the app:

bundle exec rails s

NOTE Strano cannot be run on Heroku, as the project repositories have to cloned
to a local directory in your app at vendors/repos.

Configuration

Strano requires that you define only three configuration variables. The rest are
optional, but can be overridden. You can either create a config/strano.yml
configuration file and define them in there, or you can define them in the ENV
variable. See config/strano.example.yml for all possible configuration variables.

The following are required and should be defined before running Strano.

Github Key and Secret

Create a Github application and copy
the generated key and secret to: github_key and github_secret.

Public SSH key

In order to clone repositories from Github, it requires a public SSH key be
defined in public_ssh_key. Or strano process running user should have access
to Github (or Git) repo. Also user running strano process should have SSH
access to the machines, if you want it to run Capistrano tasks.

Background Processing

Background processing of tasks and repo management is taken care of by the excellent rake task. Run
the queue like this: